Aden Popularity. In the U.S. in 2015, it ranked 369 in baby name popularity for boys with 864 occurrences. It ranked 7,564 in baby name popularity for girls with 15 occurrences. In contrast, the year before it ranked 335 in baby name popularity for boys with 994 occurrences.
It became the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) effective July 1, 1967. The organization was renamed the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on June 24, 1970, and Centers for Disease Control effective October 14, 1980. An act of the United States Congress appended the words and Prevention to the name effective October 27, 1992. However, Congress directed that the initialism CDC be retained because of its name recognition.
In March 1983, CDC, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), issued interagency recommendations for the prevention of AIDS on the basis of the epidemiologic data (Table) (26).